5 Best Social Sharing WordPress Plugins

Finding the best social sharing WordPress plugins is more difficult than it should be. If you are running a small business website on WordPress platform, it is recommended to integrate the social sharing.

Social media is one of the most essential factors for any online marketing strategy. The major reason behind using social media sharing is that you can get much traffic (other than business contacts and new customers). But it’s essential to have an eye-catching social sharing icons to increase your blog’s social following.

There are hundreds of social media sharing for WordPress, both free and paid. But only few are good, here are the list of the best social sharing WordPress plugins:

1. Floating Social Share Bar WordPress Plugin

This is in-house solution provided by WordPress. This plugin supports all the platforms: desktop, tab and mobile.

The floating feature allows this eye-catching social media bar to get you maximum shares.

3. Smart Website Tools by AddThis

This plugin supports over 300+ of the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites. The awesome feature of this plugin is, you can see analytical data on what people are sharing. This plugin is free to use but premium version has some additional features like floating soaicl media bar, widgets and options etc which costs $12 per month.

Features

Attractive Share buttons.

Varies Social Widgets.

Supports over 300+ social networking and bookmarking sites.

Recommended Content Tools.

Conversion Tools.

Social Analytics.

4. Shareaholic

It was known as Sexy Bookmarks for years. This is more than just a social sharing plugin that includes social media sharing, following, related content recommendations, promoted content and also monetization apps such as affiliate linking.

All you need to register an account to access all of the features of Shareaholic has to offer. Most important thing, it’s free which is awesome.

Features

Eye-catching Share Buttons.

Post-Share Follow Buttons.

Add Related Content to your blog.

Localized in 15+ languages.

100% Customizable.

Mobile Optimized.

Social Analytics.

Related Content support for post keywords specified in the “WordPress SEO by Yoast”, “All in One SEO Pack”, “Add Meta Tags”, etc plugins.

I actually used Shareaholic several years ago, then I lost it and couldnt remember the name for the life of me. It was disappointing. Now you just brought it back to mind, so thanks A TON for mentioning it. I just love how those buttons are fairly prominent without being intrusive.